Summary

Medal Entrevue des deux Empereurs, 'Interview at Urschultz', Issued by France,1805
Artist: Bertrand Andrieu and Jean Pierre Droz
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Laureate head of Napoleon facing right; around, NAPOLEON EMP ET ROI; on neck truncation in small lettering, ANDRIEU F.

Reverse Description

Two figures facing each other, on the right in Roman military armour, Napoleon; he rests his left hand on his parazonium, his right arm is stretched out in the attitude of dictating; the other figure, Francis II, in the attitude of supplication: between them, on the ground, are two flags lying crossways, over which is planted the Eagle standard of France; in exergue, ENTREVUE DE L'EMP. NAPOLEON / ET L'EMP. FRANCOIS II. / A URCHITZ LE IV. DECEMBRE / MDCCCV; around edge, ANDRIEU. F. DENON D.

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

"After the fatal battle of Austerlitz, the thirty-first bulletin stated, that the day after the battle, the Emperor of Austria visited the French Emperor at the outposts; he wished to include the Emperor of Russia in
an armistice, which was at length acceded to; and in the evening, the Emperor Francis dispatched an Austrian General with the result to the Emperor Alexander." Laskey p.106

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